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Reminder To Self - Blog Posts
Hey. Your brain needs to de-frag. Literally it needs you to sit there and space out.
If you want your memory or executive function to improve, stare out a window at the skyline or sidewalk or trees or birds on the electrical wires for like 20+ minutes per day. (With no other stimulation like a podcast or TV if you can manage but hey baby steps innit). If you're fortunate enough to have safe outside with any bits of nature, go stare closely at a 1 meter square of grass and trip out on the bugs and shapes of grasses and stuff.
Literally this will make you smarter. Our brains HAVE TO HAVE this zone out time to do important stuff behind the scenes. This does not happen during sleep, it's something else.
That weird pressurized feeling you get sometimes might be your brain on no defrag.
Give your brain a Daily Dose Of De-Frag.
You absolutely have to become okay with not being liked. No matter how loving or kind you are, you will never people please your way in to collective acceptance. You could be a whole ray of sunshine and people will hate you because they’re used to rain. Be okay with shining regardless.
Reminder
Take the Time to Write It Down ᝰ.ᐟ
well i meant to reblog the voyage of the dawn treader post to my main but this works too lol. god's claws peel me out of myself every week
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
— Louis L'Amour
You deserve someone who never stops trying to show you how much you mean to them, even after they have you.
women in our 20s, now more than ever remember: fear is the mind-killer, but even that is something you can sit with & metabolize as fuel
overwhelmed with gratitude for existence. it is an unfathomable gift with nothing expected in return, and yet THIS VERY FACT that i am not required to give back makes me WANT to give back so much more
probably the best advice I've ever got was from my grandpa when I moved from my town and started a university, he told me to leave the house everytime when I start to feel down, just to go to the park, a supermarket, a bookstore, to even drive in a bus or tram, just be around other people because staying at home all the time kills you; and you know he was right
Hopefully this is something it's possible to train oneself out of, but it's unfortunate that a day off work doesn't feel like a "real" day off to me if I spend it doing something, where something = like, going out to a place, spending more than an hour or two somewhere other than at home. It's like deep in my bones I feel like a day off should consist of chilling at home doing not much of anything, and the more a day deviates from that the more something in me feels like it's been cheated out of something. But I only get two days off per week and if they're all like that then all of a sudden life is entirely empty. Some people have the opposite instinct, they don't feel like they've had a true day off unless they've gone out and done something, experienced something. That seems better.
The duality of man is thinking “children cannot help themselves and we all need to be patient with them as they explore what it means to be human in public” and also “damn, I wish this crying baby was not on the plane rn :/“
trying your best does not mean putting an unbearable amount of strain on yourself.
I need to remind myself of this every once in a while :))
you can literally just be aromantic. it’s free and nobody’s stopping you :)
friendly reminder
our inherent worth doesn't come from us "contributing to society" or being some sort of productivity machine.
we're whole-ass multifaceted human beings with souls and feelings and opinions and hopes and dreams and love.
that's pretty magical. ✨
”What if nobody likes my story?” Well do you like it? Your story will always have at least one fan. Write for yourself and the right audience will come along.